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These terms are used to classify the type of data a graphics file contains. Raster files (also called bitmapped files) contain graphics information described as pixels, such as photographic images. Vector files contain data described as mathematical equations and are typically used to store line art and CAD information. Vector files have the additional capability of being scaleable meaning that ordinarily, no image editing is necessary.

If your picture changes for each form, you will need it in raster format. Our system is a template driven process and as such your original document can contain either vector or raster formatted images. To further explain, say your business cards require a picture of the employee. Your company logo is a vector art image. We would set the business card template with your logo already imbedded. Each time you create a new card you would upload a picture of the employee (.

There are a couple of ways. The best and quickest way, if you can open the file, is to zoom in on the edge of a letter. If you see lots of little squares (pixels or bitmaps), you have a raster file. If it looks clean like a line that you draw with a ballpoint pin, you more than likely have a vector file. The second way is to look at the file extension.

The raster image size is based upon the resolution (dpi) and the physical size of the image. The vector file size is based upon the number of vectors required to represent the raster file: Say the raster image is comprised of curved lines and the vectorizing software mode selected only creates vector files comprised of straight lines, arcs and circles. In this mode the resultant vectors of the curves have to be represented by an arc, or a line or a circle.

Vector based artwork is an outline path of the object that needs to be cut. Please convert to "curves" or "paths" before sending. These files can be created in Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw. If your art was created by a graphic designer, they might provide you with this file type. AI and EPS files are vector based formats. Some vector file extensions are: eps, .ai, .dxf, .cdr.

A raster image is roughly equivalent to a newspaper photograph. If you look closely you see that it is made up of lots of small dots. The density of these dots is referred to by resolution, measured in dots per inch (stated as 'dpi'). Raster files are stored in many file formats, TIFF is a common example. Vectors are used to describe specific objects defining their size, position and geometry. The image seen on screen in a CAD application is only a visual representation of the vector file.

Yes, this is a facility in TracTrix for CAD and is a handy way to check that the vectors represent the raster image.

Raster objects are made up of pixels and are considered resolution dependent because they contain a fixed number of pixels that are used to create the image. They will lose quality if enlarged beyond the number of pixels needed in a particular use. Since there is a fixed and therefore a limited number of pixels, the image becomes fuzzy as it is enlarged.

It is Electronic artwork that is generated by the Image Builders Art Department using the software Adobe Illustrator. Vector art is the most perferable format for most of our vendors because it creates perfectly smooth lines no matter how high or low the image is scaled.

A raster file looks like a series of lines but is, in fact, a series of dots close enough to appear as smooth lines.

There are settings within your PDF creation program (e.g. Acrobat Distiller) that determine how much to 'downsample' your file to in a lower resolution. This is feature is handy for website and Internet graphics, but for printed material it can be horrible.

A vector file is a data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features. A shapefile is stored in a set of related files and contains one feature class.

A raster map is a picture. Just like you have a picture on the wall, you have a picture on the screen. Each one of the pixel elements, or pixels, on the screen is just a representation of a picture. With a raster image you do not have any access to the objects in the picture, so if you have a picture of a coastline with bathymetry and buoy markers and shipping lanes, there is no way for you to select the shipping lanes, buoy markers or get a different type of coast line for that picture.

A vector image is constructed as a collection of abstract mathematical shapes, and these shapes preserve their identity when you scale the image or add or delete a shape. So, a vector image is resolution-independent. But rendering the image on a screen or a raster printer (both laser printers and ink-jet printers are raster printers) requires calculating an equivalent bitmap, which is slow.